Press Release 08/05/2012

PRESS RELEASE

Residents Oppose Planning Application

Local residents from the Woodstone Village area have united to oppose a planning application submitted to Durham County Council by local petrol distribution company Par Petroleum.

The planning application which is supported by the local planning team at Durham County Council, states that the company must expand its operations on the former Lumley Sixth Pit site in order to satisfy a new contract which the company has recently been awarded to store and distribute highly flammable aviation fuel.

Par Petroleum

Par Petroleum has applied for planning permission to expand their site opposite YOUR village.
They have purchased the land and plan to move into the GREEN BELT at the Northern entrance to the main estate.
They are planning to:-

• INCREASE THE NUMBER OF FUEL TANKERS COMING IN AND OUT OF THE SITE
• AS A CONSEQUENCE INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF AVIATION FUEL STORED ON SITE
• MOVE INTO THE GREEN BELT & CUT DOWN TREES (they have already started this)
• ERECT HIDEOUS FENCING
• ILLUMINATE THE SITE WITH “SPORTS STADIUM” STANDARD FLOOD LIGHTS

It gets worse!

• Your County Councils planning section supports the application! They haven’t even considered your safety!
• The current local disaster plan recommends an exclusion zone of 1KM from the site in the event of an accident. They estimate about 15 fatalities and they want to make it bigger and move it closer to you!

Hasn’t this land given enough, let it be!

• Deep coal mine, quarry, brick works and landfill.  Hasn’t this land served it’s time the green belt is reclaimed land. Let it be, don’t turn it back into a brown field site!
• Lots of local residents use the land on a daily basis to access the reclaimed land fill to walk their pets. Wildlife is returning to the area this proposed development is a retrograde step.

Object to Planning Application

PAR Petroleum has submitted a planning application to expand their site.

You can access the planning application on-line at: http://planning-cls.durham.gov.uk/publicaccess/

Click [Planning], Click [Application Search], Enter the code: 2/12/00078/FUL, Click [Search]

We need as many people as possible to object to this application.

You can object in writing by 15th May 2012to:-

Mr. S France

Senior Planning Officer

Planning Development North

PO Box 255

Chester le Street

County Durham

DH3 9EA

RE: Application Number: 2/12/00078/FUL

Proposal: Extension to Vehicle Storage Depot Lumley Sixth Pit Industrial Estate, Lumley Sixth Pit Fence Houses, Durham.